Hotarubi no Mori e

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Synonyms: Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light, Hanauta Nagaruru, Kurukuru Ochiba, Hibi, Fukaku

Japanese: 蛍火の杜へ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 4

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 10, 2002 to Mar 24, 2003

Genre: Romance

Theme: Iyashikei

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: LaLa

Authors: Midorikawa, Yuki (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.05¹ (scored by 9,222 users)

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Ranked: #672²

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Popularity: #875

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1. Hanauta Nagaruru
2. Hotarubi no Mori e
3. Kurukuru Ochiba
4. Hibi, Fukaku

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Gin

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Takegawa, Hotaru

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Fujimura

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Jinnai, Sou

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Jinnai, Ritsu

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Shima

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Kirisato, Kaede

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Kemumaki, Tsubaki

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Noguchi, Mikako

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May 19, 2012

abominationn

Recommended

[pertaining to the main story:Hotarubi no Mori e]

This is the most beautiful heartbreak I've ever read. Before going into detail, I want to warn the readers about some [spoilers] in this review. First of all, if you want to take a break from too much mushy shoujo mangas, I would recommend this. But I don't recommend it for the faint hearted.

So I was just chilling one day, lurking the myanimelist, when all of a sudden I came across this manga. I was like "oh so cool. I bet they're going to put a cliche at the end where she still ...

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Mar 30, 2018

blushinggeek

Mixed Feelings

Warning: There’s some huge spoiler ahead so read at your own risk.

I first knew about this manga when I accidentally watched a fan made music video of its film adaptation. I did tell you on some of my previous reviews that I love heartbreaking stories, and when I found out that Hotarubi no Morie E is one of them, I instantly added it in my TBR.

I didn’t really read the sypnosis when I added this one to my TBR coz at that time, I didn’t see any reason why I should be. I love the graphics and the story was kind of heartbreaking and that’s ...

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Dec 31, 2021

abystoma2

Not Recommended

Hi and welcome to another part of the „Is this actually good or is it highly rated just thanks to a more popular related work?“ series.

Hotarubi no Mori e is a collection of four stories. The famous and titular one that got adapted into movie, and other tree that you probably never heard about this. That is not surprising, as I have pretty much nothing to say about those first three. Uninteresting, of questionable point and way too little happen in them even for their short duration for me to comment on them more in this review. Getting the insignificant ones out of the way, ... the further review will be for the titular chapter alone – the chapter number two.

My intro might have you thinking that this chapter is actually better than the rest of them. It’s not. It’s just bad in more memorable way. Fair warning, beyond this point are spoilers, as one can’t exactly describe the faults without describing the story. Hotarubi no Mori is often lauded as great and touching romance. Yet the characters and relationship are underdeveloped even by shoujo manga standards. Honestly, I wouldn’t even call the manga version a romance, that’s how non-existent the supposed romantic relationship is.

I thought that the movie was short, but they actually had to really push it to get the few pages of the manga into what could be technically called a feature film. Kid gets lost in a forest, kid gets picked up by a stranger and gets told not to touch him, they meet up again, kid almost touches him, stranger keeps dodging the kid. Fast-forward in time because that’s easier than to actually build up the relationship naturally, kid (now a bit grown up) and the strange (now no longer a stranger) go to a festival, have fun for few pages, the guy touches a different kid, disappears, the end. It’s not touching, it’s laughable.

I’m sure a lot of people have already pointed it out about the plot, but yeah, it’s stupid. I understand that you can’t have detailed setting for a one-shot, but maybe you shouldn’t build your whole plot around an even that could have been prevented if anyone involved was actually thinking, based on the info provided. It’s been shown that touching articles of clothing is okay, when Hotaru took of Gin’s mask. Then tell me, is there any downside to wearing a god damn gloves and long trousers if that means you’re no longer constantly in danger of vanishing out of existence? Wouldn’t Gin develop the habit of touching people by clothes and not by their skin? Why would he pull the little kid by the kid’s arm instead of catching him by his t-shirt? Or just ignoring him because unlike the accidental touch for Gin, a small fall like that on completely flat ground doesn’t pose any danger beyond a scrapped knee. Was Gin supposed to be acting suicidal or does this make as much sense as someone with a milk allergy rolling through a chocolate factory?

To answer the initial question, as much as I would like to claim this manga has high rating only thanks to the movie’s popularity, a research through waybackmachine shows that it had high rating even before the movie was screened. You win this time, manga. You’re still bad, but at least you’re not piggybacking on success of a different work.

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